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Continuous practices that rely on automation in the software development workflow have been widely adopted by industry for over a decade. Despite this widespread use, software development remains a primarily human-driven activity that is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Omar Elazhary , Margaret-Anne Storey , Neil A. Ernst , Elise Paradis

The openness of modern IT systems and their permanent change make it challenging to keep these systems secure. A combination of regression and security testing called security regression testing, which ensures that changes made to a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Irdin Pekaric , Clemens Sauerwein , Michael Felderer

Safety-critical software systems are those whose failure or malfunction could result in casualty and/or serious financial loss. In such systems, safety assurance cases (SACs) are an emerging approach that adopts a proactive strategy to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jinghui Cheng , Micayla Goodrum , Ronald Metoyer , Jane Cleland-Huang

Security Assurance Cases (SAC) are a form of structured argumentation used to reason about the security properties of a system. After the successful adoption of assurance cases for safety, SACs are getting significant traction in recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mazen Mohamad , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer , Riccardo Scandariato

Using continuous development, deployment, and monitoring (CDDM) to understand and improve applications in a customer's context is widely used for non-safety applications such as smartphone apps or web applications to enable rapid and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ali Nouri , Christian Berger , Fredrik Torner

A view on software testing, taken in a broad sense and considered a important activity is presented. We discuss the methods and techniques for applying tests and the reasons we recognize make it difficult for industry to adopt the advances…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 José Marcos Gomes , Luis Alberto Vieira Dias

This study explores the state-of-the-art, application, and maturity of socio-technical security models for industries and sectors dependent on CI and investigates the gap between academic research and industry practices concerning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Uchenna D Ani , Jeremy M Watson , Nilufer Tuptuk , Steve Hailes , Aslam Jawar

Software sustainability is a key multifaceted non-functional requirement that encompasses environmental, social, and economic concerns, yet its integration into the development of Machine Learning (ML)-enabled systems remains an open…

The advancement of software sustainability encounters notable challenges, underscoring the necessity for understanding these challenges to facilitate significant progress and pave the way for effective solutions to advance software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jennifer Gross , Sofia Ouhbi

Model-based engineering promises to boost productivity and quality of complex systems development. In the context of safety-critical systems, a traditionally highly regulated and conservative domain, the use of models gained importance in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marc Zeller , Daniel Ratiu , Kai Hoefig

The automotive industry is experiencing a transition from assisted to highly automated driving. New concepts for validation of Automated Driving System (ADS) include amongst other a shift from a "technology based" approach to a "scenario…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Ilona Cieslik , Víctor J. Expósito Jiménez , Helmut Martin , Heiko Scharke , Hannes Schneider

Computing devices are vital to all areas of modern life and permeate every aspect of our society. The ubiquity of computing and our reliance on it has been accelerated and amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. From education to work…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Nadya Bliss , Lawrence A. Gordon , Daniel Lopresti , Fred Schneider , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Science and technology have a growing need for effective mechanisms that ensure reliable, controlled performance from black-box machine learning algorithms. These performance guarantees should ideally hold conditionally on the input-that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Vincent Blot , Anastasios N Angelopoulos , Michael I Jordan , Nicolas J-B Brunel

The continuous software engineering paradigm is gaining popularity in modern development practices, where the interleaving of design and runtime activities is induced by the continuous evolution of software systems. In this context,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Romina Eramo , Michele Tucci , Daniele Di Pompeo , Vittorio Cortellessa , Antinisca Di Marco , Davide Taibi

Modern software-based systems operate under rapidly changing conditions and face ever-increasing uncertainty. In response, systems are increasingly adaptive and reliant on artificial-intelligence methods. In addition to the ubiquity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Nelly Bencomo , Jordi Cabot , Marsha Chechik , Betty H. C. Cheng , Benoit Combemale , Andrzej Wąsowski , Steffen Zschaler

Recent research advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded promising results for automated software vulnerability management. AI-based models are reported to greatly outperform traditional static analysis tools, indicating a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shengye Wan , Joshua Saxe , Craig Gomes , Sahana Chennabasappa , Avilash Rath , Kun Sun , Xinda Wang

The damage caused by cybercrime makes the development of secure software inevitable. Although many tools and frameworks exist to support the development of secure software, statistics on cybercrime show no improvement in recent years. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alex R. Mattukat , Timo Langstrof , Horst Lichter

Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dapeng Yan , Wenjie Yang , Kui Liu , Zhiming Liu , Zhikuang Cai

The complexity of software is increasing day by day the requirement and need for a verity of softwareproducts increases, this necessitates the provision of a strong tool that will make a balance betweenproduction and quality. The practice…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Almustapha A. Wakili , Lawan Nasir Alhassan , Abubakar Kamagata

Assuring safety of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to safety-critical systems is of paramount importance. Especially since research in the field of automated driving shows that AI is able to outperform classical approaches, to handle…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Lars Ullrich , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer , Knut Graichen